Taking heat out of the kitchen : a case study of domestic workers in Rooihuiskraal.
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2008
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Abstract
This study draws on insights from both sociology and history in order to
locate domestic. workers. It draws insight from historical processes, in the
wider social structure and in home, in both the political and domestic
economy. This constitutes the landscape in which domestic workers are
placed. But it would be a bleak painting if we confirm the study on only these
aspects. The most important aspect of this picture lies in the human figures
it depicts. Whatever colour and richness the study has comes largely from
the thoughts and experiences of individual domestic workers. Their
definitions of the situation, their perception of themselves and their
employers, their relationship with their employers and the way in which
these are negotiated, their hopes and fears, constitute a moving record of
human suffering, endurance and denial.
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Thesis (M.A.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2008.
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Domestics--South Africa., Theses--Development studies.